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Prosthetic foot with custom graphic socket

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This artificial lower limb from 2003 is made of carbon fiber and fiberglass. Van Phillips, the inventor, designed the distinctive Flex-Foot appendage to use a person’s weight shift from leg to leg in walking as a way to store and release energy. The socket is painted with a rain forest motif.

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